9th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 9th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment was a Union Army infantry regiment which was active from 4 May 1861 to 20 May 1863 during the American Civil War. It was raised by Rush Hawkins as a zouave regiment of 2,000 troops, and it was quartered at Battery Park in New York City before fighting its first battles during Ambrose Burnside's North Carolina expedition in 1862. On 12 September 1862, it became a part of the Army of the Potomac at Frederick, Maryland, and it went on to fight at the Battle of South Mountain, the Battle of Antietam, the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Siege of Suffolk, and in the suppression of the New York draft riots, after which it was mustered out.